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By Tim Jerman Lafayette 200 is a celebration of General Lafayette’s visit to Vermont in June 1825. As the last living general ...
YORKTOWN — The annual remembrance of the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 ... also coincides with the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s return to America in 1824 as the “Guest ...
Calls of “Vive Lafayette” rang out around Whitesboro’s village green as the village welcomed the Marquis de Lafayette in ...
An 1840 canvas painted by Eugene Louis Lami depicting American forces led by the Marquis de Lafayette during the 1781 Battle of Yorktown. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia The following day ...
On June 21, 1825, in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Marquis de Lafayette – “Hero ...
Tucked away in one of the many rural cubbyholes of southern Oneida County is an unassuming burial ground known simply as Amos Parker Cemetery. Its namesake rests on high ground ...
SOUTH BEND — The Studebaker National Museum presents the program “Hero of Two Worlds: The Life, Times, and Travels of the Marquis ... Battle of Yorktown in 1781. After the war, Lafayette ...
Prior to the Battle of Yorktown, which helped end the American ... Interpreter Mark Schneider plays the Marquis de Lafayette and will be featured in a number of programs this month.
A weapon that was used during the Siege of Yorktown will soon be unveiled ... welcome the sword that was gifted by Major General Marquis de Lafayette to a soldier of the Continental Army’s ...
Friday afternoon, the Campus Martius Museum hosted Alan Hoffman, President of the American Friends of Lafayette. Hoffman’s lecture focused on the human rights concerns of the Marquis de Lafayette.
Thousands of enthusiastic supporters — Revolutionary War veterans and ordinary citizens — witnessed the return 200 years ago this weekend to Yorktown ... as the Marquis de Lafayette ...